G60: Playing a sound that turns off automatically within three seconds

The purpose of this technique is to allow authors to play a sound on their Web page but avoid the problem of users not being able to use their screen readers due to interference by the content sound. It also allows the author to avoid putting controls on the Web page to control the sound - and the problem faced by users with screen readers in finding the control (when unable to hear their screen reader).

The technique is simple. The sound plays for 3 or less seconds and stops automatically.

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• G170: Providing a control near the beginning of the Web page that turns off sounds that play automatically
• G171: Playing sounds only on user request

Procedure

1. Load the Web page

2. Check that all sound that plays automatically stops in 3 seconds or less

Expected Results

• #2 is true

If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.